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noun

Howl n.

The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.

A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.

verb

Howl v. t. To utter with outcry. "Go... howl it out in deserts."

Howl v. i. (past & past part. howled; pres. part. howling)

To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do. "And dogs in corners set them down to howl." "Methought a legion of foul fiends Environ'd me about, and howled in my ears."

To utter a sound expressive of distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail. "Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand."

To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast. "Wild howled the wind."

Howling monkey. (Zool.) See Howler, 2.

Howling wilderness, a wild, desolate place inhabited only by wild beasts.

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Etymology of 'Howl'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Howl" Quotes from Famous Books

... from ahead was a hoarse, prolonged howl. In it there was no hint that the big fellow proposed to heed the protest of the three blasts. It was insistence on right of way, the insolence of the swaggering express liner making time in competition with rivals; it hinted confident opinion that smaller chaps would ...

— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day

... it was simply a happy combination of circumstances. Polly was a small heiress when we married; I had some money from my maternal grandfather; our income was larger than our necessities, and our investments had been fortunate. Fate had set no wolf to howl at ...

— The Fat of the Land - The Story of an American Farm • John Williams Streeter

... bombardment must have carried death and destruction to everyone and everything. And yet what did this mean? The flames, which had been licking round near the cathedral, suddenly burst up in a great pillar of fire. That was the answer; the cathedral was at last alight. At this we all gave a howl of rage, for we knew what that meant. The picquets had been mysteriously reinforced by Frenchmen, Englishmen, and men of half a dozen other nationalities, all chattering together in all the languages of Europe. "Que faire, que faire," somebody kept bawling. "Get ...

— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale

... The first howl was followed by a second, then by a third, and a fourth, and soon all the araguatoes in the neighborhood joined in, and the din became so agonizing that I was fain to put my fingers in my ears and wait ...

— Mr. Fortescue • William Westall

... his father, whose air, as he took the boy, was melancholy and lugubrious in the extreme, the poor little fellow could endure no longer a mode of treatment so unusual, and, with a grimace which for a moment or two threatened the coming storm, burst out with an infantine howl. "That's how he ...

— He Knew He Was Right • Anthony Trollope

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